News Desk

An editorial desk using AI tools. Articles identify their sources; human review is recorded when performed.

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CIHR’s ethics-review initiative notice offers a $5M signal, but not proof of a live competition or award

Crossref sets February 2027 Metadata Plus caps and a Parquet beta after an October funder-match gap

NSF 26-513 makes Nov. 4 a documentation deadline for AI Infrastructure Hubs consortia

CIHR’s planned 2S/LGBTQI+ hub gives research offices dates and a budget, but not a competition yet

NIH’s Nov. 19 R25 webinar will not change the rules, but institutions still need to sort the new parent notices

Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review is operational, but awards still stay with the submitting agency

NSF’s SI Challenge supplement letter turns existing awards into a fast campus screening exercise

UKRI’s 1 April 2027 data-policy switch leaves research offices a short implementation window

Research England’s KEF6 circular creates a publication checkpoint, not a funding one

CIHR’s 2026 funding-decisions index is useful, but it is not your award ledger

NSF creates an Office of Metascience, but evidence of funding and review change is still prospective

Canada’s TGMS is now an implementation project, but research offices still lack a cutover calendar

Crossref’s proposed Member Practices set a December governance test for institutions

ORCID’s 2026 Public Data File gives research offices a yearly audit point, not a live funding system

EU adds €210m-plus to MSCA, but research offices still need the award-level record

NSF’s FY2027 GRFP closes applications, but campus award and policy checks are still open

UKRI’s Small-satellite sandpit turns a short EOI into an early compliance test for research offices

NSF’s research-security rules now split into separate proposal, award and FFDR checks

UKRI’s engineering biology pre-announcements create early compliance work before any call opens

UKRI’s October grant-assessment package demands call-by-call checks, not blanket campus rules

NSF’s Wave-Based Computing call creates an earlier administrative gate than the February proposal deadline

Crossref’s new ROR funder matching came with an October feed gap. Research offices should test Metadata Plus and snapshot ingests.

NSF’s super intelligence selections raise an immediate award-verification test for research offices

NIH’s F99/K00 correction gives campuses a tight Dec. 8 compliance window

NIH’s October workplace webinar is outreach, not a new rule. The real task is tracing which policy text governs awards.

NIH opens a Dec. 8, 2026 window for burden-reduction fixes, but not a policy change

NSF-UKRI metascience statement points research offices to data, metadata and governance checks

Horizon Europe’s €500M amendment is live in calls, not yet in grants

NIH’s May 8 Common Forms hard stop makes ORCID linkage an immediate workflow check

Tri-Agency's 2027 open-access rule is a workflow deadline, not just a policy update

ORCID and Crossref tightened grant metadata links. Research offices still need to test what actually surfaces

Grants.gov’s REST API guide shows research offices what to test first

CIHR’s Project Grant redesign consultation is open, but the public record still stops short of rule changes

UKRI’s research-data policy sets a 1 April 2027 cutoff. Research offices need the scope map before the templates.

CIHR’s NIRA Chairs notice gives budgets and dates, but its ResearchNet status language conflicts

NIH drops DMS-plan requirement for K awards immediately, but campus workflows may lag

EU programs €65 million for three life-science data resources, but research offices still need the grant record

NSF proposal teams now need Research.gov’s DMSP tool. What research offices should change.

Research offices should test Grants.gov v2 imports against NIH’s FY2026 posting shift

UKRI’s £162 million institute pledge is not yet a payment record: what research offices should verify next

NIH’s continuing-resolution notice delays Uniform Guidance changes and clouds non-competing award levels

NSF GEO Core is now the routing point for new geoscience proposals, with legacy pages on an announced exit timetable

Grants.gov’s new daily v2 XML extracts add forecast data; research offices should test imports before assuming parity

NSF’s September X-Labs expansion creates one immediate competition and two watch-list topics

UKRI’s book open-access rules separate a compliant route from a funded route

Crossmark makes corrections easier to find without certifying a paper’s conclusions

Crossref’s expanded Metadata Manager makes deposits easier, not editorial judgments

Crossref’s 2027 fee cuts do not remove the work of maintaining research records

ORCID’s peer-review initiative recognizes service without creating a quality score

ORCID’s humanities focus exposes the limits of counting only journal articles

Crossref’s board ballot puts institutional representation on an October deadline

ROR’s version change shows why an API migration is more than a new address

ORCID permissions and public visibility answer different administrative questions

NIH repository guidance asks for stewardship beyond a place to upload files

UKRI’s data-access statement requirement is not satisfied by a vague promise

NIH’s 2026 data-sharing form changes the submission format, not the underlying policy